Land Acquisition

<p>Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Jitendra Singh Vs Ministry of Environment &amp; Others dated 25/11/2019 regarding allotment of local ponds to private industrialists. The case

The business of settling new-formed land, rehabilitation of environmental refugees and building and maintaining embankments is subject to much political manoeuvring. Anthropologist Amites Mukhopadhyay of Kalyani University, West Bengal, who's researched these machinations extensively, calls it " <i>char</i> politics'.